Moving on

Private PracticePartnershipThere has been a spate of new partnership appointments this week ahead of the summer slowdown, although appointments in other areas have slowed.In the City, Tarlo Lyons has recruited commercial property lawyer Jeremy Taylor as a partner.

He moves from niche property and commercial firm Fenners.Mergers and acquisitions lawyer Nicholas Jelf has become the latest to take a partner-level know-how post.

He has joined Pinsent Curtis's London office as head of knowledge management and training for the corporate department.

He leaves Freshfields, where he was head of training and professional support for the Asia region.

Also in London, Landwell, the law firm associated with Big Five accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, has promoted two assistants to partner: Laura Cox (commercial) and Julia Smye-Rumsby (immigration).

Restructuring partner James Roome is swapping US firms: Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft for Bingham Dana.

Further north, corporate lawyer David Crone has moved from Scottish firm McGrigor Donald to Ward Hadaway in Newcastle, where he will be a partner in the corporate finance department.

North-west firm Michael Halsall has made personal injury specialist David McDermott a salaried partner.

Corporate recovery at Eversheds' Leeds and Newcastle offices is undergoing a reshuffle: partner Graham Ridler moves from Newcastle to Leeds; Paul Dutton, previously with Newcastle firm Robert Muckle, becomes a partner in Newcastle, while partner Julian Horrocks leaves law for pastures new.

Elsewhere in Leeds, newly-formed firm The Frith Partnership has completed its separation from niche commercial property McGuinness Finch by moving to new offices in the city.

The firm's four partners are Barney Frith, Virigina Clegg, Mark Appleyard and Robert Kelly.

They will continue to work for developer and retailer clients.

'We felt that McGuinness Finch had grown too big and unwieldy,' said Mr Frith.Norwich firm Steele & Co has appointed two new partners: Bryon Britton (commercial litigation) and Richard Hewitt (planning and public law), taking the total number of partners to 12.

In Ipswich, litigation specialist Clive Brynley-Jones has been made senior partner of Prettys in succession to Paul Butters, who held the post for 15 years.High Wycombe-based Blaser Mills Winter Taylors has made litigation specialist Alka Kharbanda its new managing partner.

Further west, commercial litigator Chris Worrall has joined the Plymouth office of Foot Anstey Sargent from the Cardiff office of Morgan Cole.

Abroad, German finance lawyer Hans Stamm and a team of three associates has moved from Munich firm Raupach & Wollert-Elmendorff to Clifford Chance Pnder.

Commercial litigation lawyer Edward Alder, formerly with Holman Fenwick & Willan in Hong Kong, has crossed the city to join Bird & Bird's office.

Leaving Hong Kong is Richard Kimber, who has transferred to Shanghai to head Sinclair Roche & Temperley's office there.

Private PracticeAssociates/assistantsIn the City, litigation lawyer Oliver Kinsey has moved from Simmons & SImmons to Landwell, where he will head the firm's global risk management team.

The London office of US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired consumer finance lawyer Lorna Finlayson as a senior associate.

She was previously head of legal at Direct Line financial services.

Alan Jones has moved from Kennedys to Davies Arnold Cooper, where he will head the firm's motor team.Pinsent Curtis has added to its technology group with the appointment of intellectual property lawyer Martyn Hann, who moves from Norton Rose.Anca Toma-Thomson, also previously with Norton Rose, and James Beatton, who moves from Kent firm Whitehead Monckton, have both joined Tunbridge Wells-based Cripps Harries Hall's corporate department.The commercial property team at west Yorkshire firm Gordons Cranswick is boosted by Claire Murphy, previously at Leeds firm Blacks.

JudiciaryFour solicitors have recently been appointed to the circuit bench: joining the Midland and Oxford circuit are Martin McKenna, formerly a solicitor at the Birmingham office of Eversheds, recorder Anthony Mitchell and district judge Ian Collisto; recorder Diana Faber is joining the South Eastern circuit.Solicitor Michael Jubber has been promoted from a full-time immigration adjudicator in Hatton Cross, west London, to regional immigration adjudicator for Hatton Cross.